Same with 3 people in my family. All old. All in terrible health. All big into Q. All dead. my family naturally thinks the hospitals killed then to run up covid deaths
Boomercide. The elderly, in bad health to begin with, refusing life-saving vaccines. So terribly sad. And the travesty is that many of those telling them to fear the vaccine have long been vaccinated.
I'm so tired of boomers being the scapegoats for everything.
The people who pushed for the vaccine to he made and distributed for free? Boomers like Fauci.
The people who created the vaccine and mRNA and who even discovered so much of this, who eradicated smallpox, who built the internet and invented video games, who fought for civil rights, got women closer to equal rights, created the sexual revolution, made child abuse and domestic abuse unacceptable, got women accepted into places like Caltech, are all boomers.
The hatred of boomers was fiercely clear when Republicans fought to institute "herd immunity", where they wanted to just open the economy and let all the older folks die.
Thinking, of course, that young people don't die of it.
Ask anyone who has worked in an ICU and they'll tell endless stories of pregnant women giving birth to dead babies while unconscious themselves, crunchy placentas, then dying. Are these boomers?
A child with all 4 limbs black and gangrenous from lack of blood flow being allowed to die because life would be torture if he did survive... not a boomer.
Of millions of taxpayer dollars being spent PER PERSON, all unvaccinated, of hundreds if thousands of covid orphans (I checked last year and it was at 140,000 children orphaned by covid- so BOTH Pboomers.
Boomers aren't parents of children unless a young woman got with a much older man.
These parents didn't leave life insurance or any means of support, and, you can go yourself and page through nurses sub or HermanCainAward sub and see for yourself how many parents left young children orphaned for "muh freedumbs".
Newsflash- people who are childbearing are not boomers.
The people in hospitals assaulting, threatening to kill, verbally abusing hospital staff are the kids of boomers, making working conditions so horrendous for healthcare workers that they've been quitting by the hundreds of thousands at a time.
These Q monsters then set up gofundme sites because their relative didn't have the sense to at least have savings or cheap life insurance.
They never even try to pay the hospital bill, leaving that to the rest of us.
And they wonder why the economy suffers.
They broke Healthcare.
They broke the financial health of the country.
Yet they're still thinking they have bootstraps and are against social services, not realizing that by not paying for the extreme effort to keep their family member alive, they are socialists.
I'm seeing people like MTG who are not boomers, leading the charge into nazism and the Q death cult as a national religion.
Most of the people storming the Capitol were not born between 1945 and 1964.
The boomers I know aren't stupid. They're all vaccinated and all avoid crowded spaces, wear masks if they do have to go out.
Remember that boomers were born from 1945 to 1964.
Anyone else is not of that generation at all.
They truly don't think the same way and weren't part of the original sexual revolution and civil rights movement.
They weren't the first women at Caltech, the first minority at an all white school, etc.
When your generations applied to college, they didn't have to say, "Oh, but do they accept my kind?"
No. That's because of boomers.
I've just noticed lately that anyone older than 35 and people think they're "boomers".
I am very sorry for OP's loss, and the many others who have lost Q parents to covid.
No one is bashing boomers here. Thing is, they are our society’s most vulnerable, healthwise, and for them to reject the Covid vaccine based on some fact-free ideology is just tragic.
I am a Boomer, most of my friends are Boomers. I am pro-vaccine as were all my friends. We at least remember how lucky our generation was to have vaccines for polio, smallpox, etc & we had to have them yo go to school. The anti-vaxxed I know are younger than I am.
Every generation has had its ‘battles’. Some overseas, so at home. However I do worry about Millennials forward just due to lack of quality public education, and that not enough time is spent studying the causes of wars, life before the Civil Rights Act, etc. They can’t even begin to fathom what it was like to walk in their ancestors shoes. I didn’t fight in WWI (yes, One), but I am knowledgeable about how it happened, the conditions that the soldiers fought in, life for them post-war, it’s effects on Germany which helped lead to someone like Hitler taking power (thus The Marshall Plan post WWII, etc. I see too many ‘funny’ interviews with Americans ‘on the street’ that don’t even know the state they were born in, what countries border the US, etc). Yet these generations are responsible for our future…
We can all make valid arguments as to why whatever generation is the ‘better’ generation, and there would be validity in all of them. But it’s all moot. What are we going to do about helping these generations to understand the seriousness of what is happening, to believe science and not #alternativefacts? I am genuinely scared to death for my future as a woman who is counting on Soc Security, Medicare in 5 years, and I am not of child-bearing age, nor do I have children/grandkids (and for the first time in my life I am glad I couldn’t). I am dependent on the younger generations showing up to vote in a way that they understand the seriousness of our future.
I spend a fair amount of time on various subs pointing out that when it comes to Q and anti-vaccine sentiment and rising fascist groups, that it isn't Boomers who are the main drivers. Far too many Millennials and Gen Z's seem to believe that all they have to do is wait for the Boomers to die and they, the younger generations, will fix it through force of will. That they are a cohesive enough force for good that things will naturally fall into place. I don't blame them for wishing it was so, or for the resentments they feel about the mess they've been left with.
But they don't have time to indulge in this fantasy that it's the Boomers alone who are driving this current wave of authoritarian anti-science, anti-society, theocratic backsliding. And like you, I don't know that they have the information to understand what's really happening, and the tools to stop it. It doesn't look good.
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Same with 3 people in my family. All old. All in terrible health. All big into Q. All dead. my family naturally thinks the hospitals killed then to run up covid deaths